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Whether you wish to immerse yourself in the story of the Silk Road, explore what being famous has meant through the ages, or read about the Islamic Enlightenment, here you’ll find our brilliant selection of books on world history.  Browse our new and bestselling books on African, American, Asian, Australasian & Pacific, European and Middle Eastern history, as well as the volumes that span the globe and mine our shared, interconnected past. From Peter Frankopan to Yuval Noah Harari, and from William Dalrymple to Max Hastings, let acclaimed authors and historians take you on eye-opening journeys across continents and millennia.     

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Our Best World History Books

Operation Pedestal
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Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
£9.99
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The World
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The World
Simon Sebag Montefiore
£35.00   £31.99
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The Dawn of Everything
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The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber
£12.99   £10.99
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Russia
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Russia
Antony Beevor
£30.00   £15.00
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Empireland
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Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
£9.99
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Fake History
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Fake History
Otto English
£9.99
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The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£16.99
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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
£8.99
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Dominion
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Dominion
Tom Holland
£12.99
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The Premonitions Bureau
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The Premonitions Bureau
Sam Knight
£14.99   £7.49
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
Neil Oliver
£10.99   £8.99
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The Hong Kong Diaries
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The Hong Kong Diaries
Chris Patten
£30.00   £26.99
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The Anarchy
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
£12.99
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Blood and Oil
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Blood and Oil
Bradley Hope
£10.99
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The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
£12.99
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Atoms and Ashes
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Atoms and Ashes
Serhii Plokhy
£25.00   £22.99
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Women in the War
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Women in the War
Lucy Fisher
£9.99
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Persians
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Persians
Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
£25.00
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Our Best New World History Hardbacks

Abyss
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Abyss
Max Hastings
£30.00   £15.00
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Into Iraq
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Into Iraq
Michael Palin
£16.99   £8.49
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The Last Colony
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The Last Colony
Philippe Sands
£16.99   £8.49
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The Japanese Myths
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The Japanese Myths
Joshua Frydman
£14.99
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
Jeremy Bowen
£20.00   £10.00
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Personality and Power
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Personality and Power
Ian Kershaw
£30.00   £15.00
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The Premonitions Bureau
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The Premonitions Bureau
Sam Knight
£14.99   £7.49
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Buried
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Buried
Alice Roberts
£20.00
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Devil Dogs
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Devil Dogs
Saul David
£25.00   £22.99
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
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The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Christopher De Hamel
£40.00   £20.00
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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire
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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire
Ryan Gingeras
£30.00   £26.99
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The Curtain and the Wall
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The Curtain and the Wall
Timothy Phillips
£20.00
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The Ottomans
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The Ottomans
Diana Darke
£30.00   £26.99
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After the Romanovs
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After the Romanovs
Helen Rappaport
£20.00   £17.99
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Atoms and Ashes
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Atoms and Ashes
Serhii Plokhy
£25.00   £22.99
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TUTANKHAMUN
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TUTANKHAMUN
Joyce Tyldesley
£22.00
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A Pipeline Runs Through It
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A Pipeline Runs Through It
Keith Fisher
£35.00
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Africa Is Not A Country
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Africa Is Not A Country
Dipo Faloyin
£16.99
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Our Best New World History Paperbacks

Unwell Women
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Unwell Women
Elinor Cleghorn
£9.99   £8.49
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The Dawn of Everything
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The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber
£12.99   £10.99
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Fake History
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Fake History
Otto English
£9.99
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Tunnel 29
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Tunnel 29
Helena Merriman
£10.99
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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
£8.99
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Powers and Thrones
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Powers and Thrones
Dan Jones
£12.00
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
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The Story of the World in 100 Moments
Neil Oliver
£10.99   £8.99
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The Habsburgs
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The Habsburgs
Martyn Rady
£12.99
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Queens of Jerusalem
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Queens of Jerusalem
Katherine Pangonis
£9.99
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life
Francis Pryor
£10.99   £9.49
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About Time
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About Time
David Rooney
£10.99
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The Wood Age
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The Wood Age
Roland Ennos
£9.99
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The Fall of the Ottomans
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The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
£12.99
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The Invention of Medicine
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The Invention of Medicine
Robin Lane Fox
£12.99
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The Japanese
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The Japanese
Christopher Harding
£12.99
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
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The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
Linda Colley
£10.99
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Fallen Idols
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Fallen Idols
Alex von Tunzelmann
£10.99
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
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Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World
Philip Matyszak
£20.00
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The Earth Transformed
The Earth Transformed
Peter Frankopan
£30.00 £26.99
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Wide-ranging, topical and revelatory, this monumental account from the author of The Silk Roads of how the natural world has shaped human history sheds fascinating new light on both today's climate crisis and the epochal shifts of the past.
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Russia and Ukraine

A Message from Ukraine
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A Message from Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky
£9.99
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Diary of an Invasion
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Diary of an Invasion
Andrey Kurkov
£16.99   £14.99
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The Gates of Europe
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The Gates of Europe
Serhii Plokhy
£10.99
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You Don't Know What War Is
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You Don't Know What War Is
Yeva Skalietska
£9.99   £8.99
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Putin's People
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Putin's People
Catherine Belton
£10.99
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Everything is Possible
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Everything is Possible
Mary Wood
£10.99
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Gorbachev
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Gorbachev
Prof. William Taubman
£16.99
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
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The Shortest History of the Soviet Union
Sheila Fitzpatrick
£12.99   £10.99
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Putin
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Putin
Philip Short
£30.00   £15.00
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Ukraine Diaries
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Ukraine Diaries
Andrey Kurkov
£12.99
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Zelensky
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Zelensky
Steven Derix
£16.99
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In Wartime
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In Wartime
Tim Judah
£10.99
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Kleptopia
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Kleptopia
Tom Burgis
£9.99
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The Road to Unfreedom
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The Road to Unfreedom
Timothy Snyder
£10.99
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Borderland
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Borderland
Anna Reid
£10.99
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Red Notice
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Red Notice
Bill Browder
£10.99
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Lost Kingdom
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Lost Kingdom
Serhii Plokhy
£10.99
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Sapiens
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
£10.99
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The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£16.99
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On Tyranny
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On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
£9.99
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Histories of Nations
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Histories of Nations
Peter Furtado
£12.99
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A History of the World in 21 Women
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A History of the World in 21 Women
Jenni Murray
£9.99
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The Boundless Sea
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The Boundless Sea
David Abulafia
£16.99
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The Great Cities in History
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The Great Cities in History
John Julius Norwich
£12.99
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The Origins of Political Order
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The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
£12.99
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Threads of Life
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Threads of Life
Clare Hunter
£9.99
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Revolutions
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Revolutions
Peter Furtado
£12.99
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Jerry Brotton
£14.99
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Pale Rider
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Pale Rider
Laura Spinney
£10.99
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Waves Across the South
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Waves Across the South
Sujit Sivasundaram
£10.99
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Open
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Open
Johan Norberg
£10.99
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The Golden Thread
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The Golden Thread
Kassia St Clair
£10.99
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Our Best African History

Dictatorland
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Dictatorland
Paul Kenyon
£10.00
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The State of Africa
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The State of Africa
Martin Meredith
£12.99
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King Leopold's Ghost
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King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
£10.99
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Long Walk To Freedom
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Long Walk To Freedom
Nelson Mandela
£14.99
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The Looting Machine
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The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis
£10.99
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'Exterminate All The Brutes'
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'Exterminate All The Brutes'
Sven Lindqvist
£10.00
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Africa
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Africa
Richard Dowden
£12.99
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
£16.99
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The Emperor
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The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuscinski
£9.99
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Empires in the Sun
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Empires in the Sun
Lawrence James
£14.99
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The Scramble For Africa
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The Scramble For Africa
Thomas Pakenham
£15.99
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There Was a Country
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There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
£9.99
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A Fistful of Shells
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A Fistful of Shells
Toby Green
£14.99
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Congo
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Congo
David van Reybrouck
£12.99
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The Gardens of Mars
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The Gardens of Mars
John Gimlette
£10.99
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Zulu Rising
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Zulu Rising
Ian Knight
£16.99
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Charlie English
£9.99
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Do Not Disturb
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Do Not Disturb
Michela Wrong
£20.00
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Our Best American History

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Dee Brown
£10.99
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The Witches
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The Witches
Stacy Schiff
£10.99
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The American Civil War
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The American Civil War
John Keegan
£12.99
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Devil Dogs
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Devil Dogs
Saul David
£25.00   £22.99
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Black Spartacus
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Black Spartacus
Sudhir Hazareesingh
£10.99
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One Summer
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One Summer
Bill Bryson
£10.99
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The Earth is Weeping
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The Earth is Weeping
Peter Cozzens
£14.99
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Killers of the Flower Moon
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Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann
£8.99
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Gimson's Presidents
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Gimson's Presidents
Andrew Gimson
£10.99
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How to Hide an Empire
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How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
£10.99
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The American West
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The American West
Dee Brown
£9.99
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The British Are Coming
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The British Are Coming
Rick Atkinson
£12.99
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Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
£15.99
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JFK
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JFK
Fredrik Logevall
£14.99
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The Storm is Here
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The Storm is Here
Luke Mogelson
£25.00   £12.50
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Mitchell Zuckoff
£12.99
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Populista
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Populista
Will Grant
£9.99
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Our Best Asian History

The Japanese Myths
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The Japanese Myths
Joshua Frydman
£14.99
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The Shortest History of China
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The Shortest History of China
Linda Jaivin
£8.99
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The Hong Kong Diaries
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The Hong Kong Diaries
Chris Patten
£30.00   £26.99
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The Anarchy
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
£12.99
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Inglorious Empire
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Inglorious Empire
Shashi Tharoor
£10.99
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Vietnam
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Vietnam
Max Hastings
£12.99
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Wild Swans
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Wild Swans
Jung Chang
£10.99
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The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
£12.99
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The Great Empires of Asia
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The Great Empires of Asia
Jim Masselos
£10.99
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Himalaya
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Himalaya
Ed Douglas
£12.99
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Istanbul
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Istanbul
Bettany Hughes
£14.99
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The Opium War
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The Opium War
Julia Lovell
£12.99
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The Patient Assassin
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The Patient Assassin
Anita Anand
£9.99
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Dispatches
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Dispatches
Michael Herr
£10.99
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The Japanese
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The Japanese
Christopher Harding
£12.99
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Genghis Khan
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Genghis Khan
Frank McLynn
£14.99
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The Korean War
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The Korean War
Max Hastings
£16.99
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
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Stranger in the Shogun's City
Amy Stanley
£9.99
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Our Best Australasian & Pacific History

Sea People
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Sea People
Christina Thompson
£9.99
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The Fatal Shore
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The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes
£14.99
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Endeavour
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Endeavour
Peter Moore
£12.99
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Australia
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Australia
Phillip Knightley
£10.99
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Terra Nullius
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Terra Nullius
Sven Lindqvist
£10.99
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The Commonwealth of Thieves
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The Commonwealth of Thieves
Thomas Keneally
£10.99
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Thicker Than Water
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Thicker Than Water
Cal Flyn
£10.99
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Sydney
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Sydney
Jan Morris
£10.99
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Aboriginal Australians
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Aboriginal Australians
Stephen Muecke
£7.95
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Dark Emu
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Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe
£12.99
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The Palace Letters
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The Palace Letters
Professor Jenny Hocking
£14.99
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Batavia's Graveyard
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Batavia's Graveyard
Mike Dash
£12.99
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Pacific
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Pacific
Philip Hatfield
£30.00
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The Great Race
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The Great Race
David Hill
£12.99
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Flinders
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Flinders
Rob Mundle
£14.99
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Our Best European History

The Shortest History of Europe
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The Shortest History of Europe
John Hirst
£8.99
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Lotharingia
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Lotharingia
Simon Winder
£12.99
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Last Days in Old Europe
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Last Days in Old Europe
Richard Bassett
£9.99
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The Sleepwalkers
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The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark
£16.99
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To Hell and Back
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To Hell and Back
Ian Kershaw
£14.99
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Europe's Tragedy
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Europe's Tragedy
Peter H. Wilson
£18.99
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Afropean
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Afropean
Johny Pitts
£10.99
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Vanished Kingdoms
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Vanished Kingdoms
Norman Davies
£18.99
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The Inheritance of Rome
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The Inheritance of Rome
Chris Wickham
£14.99
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The Great Sea
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The Great Sea
David Abulafia
£18.99
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In Europe
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In Europe
Geert Mak
£12.99
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The Pursuit of Glory
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The Pursuit of Glory
Tim Blanning
£19.99
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The Pursuit of Power
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The Pursuit of Power
Richard J. Evans
£18.99
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Reformation
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Reformation
Diarmaid MacCulloch
£18.99
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The Habsburgs
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The Habsburgs
Andrew Wheatcroft
£12.99
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Antwerp
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Antwerp
Michael Pye
£25.00
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The Lost Cafe Schindler
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The Lost Cafe Schindler
Meriel Schindler
£20.00
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Agents of Empire
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Agents of Empire
Noel Malcolm
£15.99
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Our Best Middle Eastern History

Into Iraq
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Into Iraq
Michael Palin
£16.99   £8.49
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A Line in the Sand
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A Line in the Sand
James Barr
£9.99
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Orientalism
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
£10.99
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Jerusalem
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Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
£14.99
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Turkey
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Turkey
Norman Stone
£9.99
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Arabs
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Arabs
Tim Mackintosh-Smith
£14.99
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Islamic Empires
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Islamic Empires
Justin Marozzi
£12.99
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Revolutionary Iran
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Revolutionary Iran
Michael Axworthy
£14.99
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A History of the Middle East
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A History of the Middle East
Peter Mansfield
£14.99
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Babylon
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Babylon
Paul Kriwaczek
£11.99
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Black Wave
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Black Wave
Kim Ghattas
£10.99
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The Story of the Jews
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The Story of the Jews
Simon Schama
£10.99
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The Arabs
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The Arabs
Eugene Rogan
£16.99
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The Islamic Enlightenment
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The Islamic Enlightenment
Christopher de Bellaigue
£12.99
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The Great War for Civilisation
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The Great War for Civilisation
Robert Fisk
£18.99
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A History of the Arab Peoples
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A History of the Arab Peoples
Malise Ruthven
£14.99
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The Fall of the Ottomans
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The Fall of the Ottomans
Eugene Rogan
£12.99
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